One Man's Personal Vietnam War

By

Barry Wain

Updated Jan. 21, 2000 12:11 a.m. ET

T he Vietnam War scarred the U.S. psyche and still haunts the American landscape a quarter century later. It also seared the lives of countless Vietnamese, who remain traumatized and tortured. Ly Tong is one of them.

A pilot who was shot down shortly before fighting finally ceased in 1975, he also had the misfortune to be an officer in the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese military, which put him on the losing side. He was condemned to...